iOS 13 introduced a lot of cool features that pleased iPhone users, but it also has its own share of issues. Because of this, Apple immediately released iOS 13.1 to resolve the issues. According to multiple reports, the release of iOS 13.2 recently has indeed quashed some old bugs. Unfortunately, it also introduced new ones including what many believe to be a major memory management bug.
In a recent tweet by developer Marco Ament, he claims that Apple introduced new major bugs when it released iOS 13.2. Background downloads usually hang or never run at all, says Ament. The developer also mentions that apps get aggressively killed in the background that restricts the iOS to offer multitasking. Moreover, iOS 13.2 reportedly has a pattern of breaking long-held basic functionality.
Major new bugs introduced in iOS 13.2: - background downloads often hang forever and never run - apps get killed in the background so aggressively that iOS effectively doesn’t offer multitasking anymore …continuing the iOS 13 pattern of breaking long-held basic functionality. — Marco Arment (@marcoarment) October 31, 2019
Former Apple software engineer David Shayer listed several issues he discovered in iOS 13 long before users discovered the bugs. The software engineer mentions issues like Apple crash reports do not identify non-crashing bugs. Shayer also notes that bugs that are not fixed are just old bugs that stayed unfixed and pile up, which break codes or cause frustrations among users.
The iOS 13.2 has a bug in background app management that causes even the latest iPhone model to crash out apps the moment they are not in use, reports MacRumors. The major app affected every time this happens is the Safari web browser on iPhone devices. Even the Apple fan site iMore reports that iOS 13.2 seems to have broken multitasking.
iOS developer Nick Heer said,
I'm used to the camera purging all open apps from memory on my iPhone X, but iOS 13.2 goes above and beyond in killing background tasks. Earlier today, I was switching between a thread in Messages and a recipe in Safari and each app entirely refreshed every time I foregrounded it. This happens all the time throughout the system in iOS 13: Safari can't keep even a single tab open in the background, every app boots from scratch, and using iOS feels like it has regressed to the pre-multitasking days.
For those who have not yet installed the iOS 13.2 and would not want to risk experiencing the same issues reported by iPhone users, it is best to hold off the installation until Apple finally releases a fix.
